Gastriptosis seems to be a misspelling of gastroptosis, which is medical terminology denoting abnormal downward displacement of the stomach. Another interesting vocabulary item is squid belly.
Early ICBM development must have been amusing, with the USSR and the West claiming they were gifting humanity with space missiles for science.
Actually, that's a solution to something that has been bothering me for a while. Every time I try to read the history of the cold war I get depressed...
That's an incorrect description of how monoamine-neurotransmitter antidepressants are used. Altering the levels of those drugs causes the opposite of the mood-stabilizing effect. Perhaps that is why she is suicidal.
I thought that the cliche of death playing chess was Ingmar Bergman's invention, but apparently he was inspired by a fifteenth century mural of the same.